Trump takes steps to shutter USAID and gives Musk unprecedented access to federal systems
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. Tonight, major tariffs against Mexico and Canada have been put on hold for one month, but others against China are set to go into effect tomorrow. |
| 0:10.7 | This all comes as President Donald Trump pushes new boundaries, taking steps to shudder an entire government agency and giving his close advisor, Elon Musk, unprecedented leeway to cut costs in |
| 0:23.0 | Washington and beyond. Our report tonight from Laura Barone Lopez. Tonight, major tariffs against |
| 0:30.0 | Mexico and Canada are on pause. Just hours before they were set to go into effect at the stroke |
| 0:36.3 | of midnight tonight. President Trump and Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, |
| 0:40.3 | after speaking by phone today, agreed to immediately pause the anticipated tariffs for a one-month period. |
| 0:47.3 | Mexico pledging to put 10,000 of its troops along the U.S. southern border to help combat the flow of drugs. And |
| 0:55.4 | Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the same delay will be given to Canada. But other tariffs |
| 1:00.9 | are not off the table. A 10% tariff will remain on China, one of the United States' largest |
| 1:07.4 | trading partners. As punishment, the White House says, for Chinese-made fentanyl flowing into the |
| 1:13.0 | country. This is retaliatory. This is retaliatory to a certain extent. They have to stop people |
| 1:19.5 | for pouring in, and we have to stop fentanyl, and that includes China. Fentanyl has killed this year |
| 1:26.1 | at least 200,000 people. |
| 1:28.3 | It's boring in from China through Mexico and Canada, and they've got to stop it. |
| 1:34.3 | The now delayed tariffs on everything from produce in the grocery aisle to lumber and building materials, |
| 1:39.3 | to automobiles and electronics. |
| 1:41.3 | The president admitted they would cost Americans. |
| 1:45.0 | We may have short term some little pain and people understand that, but long term the United |
| 1:51.0 | States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world. |
| 1:56.0 | The move follows backlash. Canada threatened a 25% tariff this weekend on billions in U.S. goods. |
| 2:03.0 | If President Trump wants to usher in a new golden age for the United States, the better path |
| 2:09.8 | is to partner with Canada, not to punish us. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is also sending shockwaves across its own federal |
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